Man stabs fellow countryman to death in psychotic episode fueled by drugs and stress – Portugal

The 28-year-old British national, who stabbed a fellow countryman to death during a psychotic episode in Solheira, Petrogovo Grande, in September last year, will be hospitalized for a minimum of three years. Maximum 16 A festival held on an isolated farm in the jungle.

A panel of judges considered that it was proven that he had authored the crimes he was charged with – murder, possession of a prohibited weapon and desecration of a corpse – but that he had committed them as a result of a psychotic episode. Ameliorated by “consumption of various drugs, sleep and extreme stress”, the head of the panel of judges said this Monday.

Evidence heard in court, including from the victim’s girlfriend at the time of the incident, proved the accused thought he was “hurting himself”.

On September 24, the man, considered “incredibly dangerous,” traveled to Portugal to attend a party. When he met the victim who lives in the area, he attacked her with a 26cm knife and stabbed her more than 20 times in the early hours of the morning, during a mental illness. He then covered the body with plants, hid the knife, and changed into bloodstained clothes. At 6:30 a.m., the attacker surrendered to authorities at the GNR post in Figueroa dos Vinhos.

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